Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.

The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.